A Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

In: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction: Gender, migration and exile -- 2 Destabilising gender dynamics: Syria post-2011 -- 3 Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) Syrian refugees in Turkey -- 4 The violence of tolerated temporality: Syrian women refugees on the outskirts of Istanbul -- 5 'Trust no one, beware of everyone': Vulnerabilities of LGBTI refugees in Lebanon -- 6 Gender, social class and exile: The case of Syrian women in Cairo -- 7 Death at sea: Migration and the gendered dimensions of border insecurity -- 8 Women's experience of forced migration: Gender-based forms of insecurity and the uses of "vulnerability" -- 9 Gender performativity in diaspora: Syrian refugee women in the UK -- 10 Agent, victim, soldier, son: Intersecting masculinities in the European "refugee crisis" -- 11 Conclusions -- Index